Job summary
- Main area
- Project Support
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 20 months (Fixed Term until 31st March 2027 due to funding)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5 combination of office and WFH)
- Job ref
- 040-AC195-0625
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Cadoc's Hospital
- Town
- Caerleaon
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Capital IRCF Assistant Programme Manager
Band 7
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job overview
Are you ready to play a key role in driving the success and shaping regional integration of health and care in Gwent? As an Assistant Programme Manager, you will be part of the Gwent Regional Partnership Board Support Team (PMO) within the Planning team, supporting impactful projects and streamlining operations that make a real difference.
If you’re passionate about making an impact, excited to support a variety of key functions, and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the role for you.
The Integrated Rebalancing Capital Fund (IRCF) provides capital investment to develop integrated health and care hubs, rebalance adult residential care, and eliminate profit from children’s residential care. You will coordinate and support delivery of capital projects across a wide range of population groups, including, children & young people, older people including those with dementia, people with learning disabilities & neurodevelopmental needs, unpaid carers, those experiencing or at risk of domestic abuse, & people with mental health needs.
The role involves close partnership working with Welsh Government, Local Authorities, Housing Associations, Health Boards, and the Third Sector to support delivery of Gwent’s Strategic Capital Plan.
The post is based at St Cadoc’s Hospital, Caerleon, with hybrid working from home. Travel across Gwent is expected to meet with partners, develop funding proposals and strengthen delivery partnerships.
Main duties of the job
The Capital IRCF Assistant Programme Manager will be a key member of the Gwent Regional Partnership Board (RPB) Support Team (PMO), part of the ABUHB Corporate Planning team. The team leads a portfolio management function for the Gwent RPB, supporting the delivery of capital projects through the Integrated Rebalancing Capital Fund (IRCF).
The IRCF provides capital investment to develop integrated health and care hubs, rebalance adult residential care, and remove profit from children’s residential care. Projects span multiple population groups and services, with the aim of improving outcomes and infrastructure across the region.
The postholder will provide project and programme management for IRCF-funded schemes, supporting planning, delivery, and reporting against national and regional priorities. They will work closely with local authorities, ABUHB, housing associations, third sector partners, and Welsh Government to coordinate delivery and enable collaboration.
Key duties include supporting business case development, monitoring arrangements, stakeholder engagement, and assurance reporting. The role will also contribute to performance tracking and dashboard development alongside the RPB Performance Analyst.
This is a varied and hands-on role, requiring excellent coordination, communication, and programme delivery skills to ensure successful implementation of IRCF schemes.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post is fixed term/secondment until 31st March 2027 due to funding. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience.
- Project / programme management knowledge to post graduate diploma level equivalent
- Knowledge of MS-Office suite of software.
- Knowledge and/or experience of partnership working.
- Knowledge and/or experience of project and programme management.
- Knowledge of relevant national and local strategy and policy
Desirable criteria
- Trained in a project or programme management methodology. Such as PRINCE2 or MSP
- Knowledge of the 5-case business model
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in the production of high-quality project documentation including Business Cases and Project Plans.
- Experience in developing and writing reports, and presenting information to a variety of audiences.
- Project/programme or change management experience either as leading a whole project/programme or implementing a project/programme in own department
- Experience and knowledge of working within statutory health and social care services, third sector, housing or related organisation in the delivery or management of operational services.
- Experience/ knowledge of working across collaboratively organisational boundaries and in partnership with other organisations.
- Experience of facilitating conversations and organising events, including workshops, with delivery partners.
- Experience of translating policy into delivery for population benefit.
Desirable criteria
- Track record of staff management
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to prepare and deliver high quality presentations to a variety of audiences
- Analytical skills to develop, read, interpret and disseminate complex information to others.
- Professional in dealing with multi-agency staff.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to facilitate and influence.
- Ability to work collaboratively across the Partnership.Excellent communications skills both verbal and written.
- Excellent communications skills both verbal and written.
- Ability to lead and work well in a team environment but able to work on their own initiative.
- Highly motivated and able to work to deadlines
- Willingness to learn new skills where appropriate and have a flexible approach to work.
- Ability to work effectively in a highly complex and continually changing environment.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Appreciation of Risk
- Well-developed leadership skills.
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Innovative and solution-oriented, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage uncertainty and work under pressure.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, effectively engaging with partners across stakeholder groups.
- Proven experience in organising, motivating, and working collaboratively with teams outside direct line management.
- A self-motivated team player with a keen interest in health, social care, and community outcomes.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Samantha Adams
- Job title
- Capital Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633431718
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